Species Aleurocanthus banksiae (Maskell, 1896)

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• Aleurodes banksiae Maskell, W.M. 1896. Contributions towards a monograph of the Aleurodidae, a family of the Hemiptera - Homoptera. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 28: 411-449 [423].

  Type data:

   Lectotype ANIC puparium slide, Vic, Melbourne.

  Subsequent designation references:

  Dumbleton, L.J. 1956. The Australian Aleyrodidae (Hemiptera: Homoptera). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 81: 159-183 [164].

  Type locality references:

  Maskell, W.M. 1895. Contributions towards a monograph of the Aleurodidae, a family of the Hemiptera - Homoptera. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 28: 411-449 [423-424].

  Type host:

   Banksia integrifolia L.f. [PROTEACEAE]

  Secondary source:

   Quaintance, A.L. & Baker, A.C. 1914. Classification of the Aleyrodidae Part II. United States Department of Agriculture. Bureau of Entomology. Technical Series 27: 95-109 [102].

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, Vic: Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Adults: sap-feeder (associated flora: Banksia spp. [PROTEACEAE]; Banksia integrifolia L.f. [PROTEACEAE] Coast Banksia).

Nymphs: sap-feeder (associated flora: Hakea prostrata R.Br. [PROTEACEAE]; Banksia spp. [PROTEACEAE]).

 

History of changes

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